Ruling · Guru Pūrṇimā · 2040

Tuesday 24 July

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 72 minutes.

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38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Monday 23 July

Pūrṇimā is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:00  12:48 madhyāhna ends
11:1211:3612:0012:2412:4813:1213:36

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Tuesday 24 July

Taken. Pūrṇimā reaches neither midday; the rule takes the second day.

madhyāhna begins 12:00  12:48 madhyāhna ends
11:1211:3612:0012:2412:4813:1213:36

0 of 48 minutes covered

Pūrṇimā presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pūrṇimā runs from 14:00 on Mon 23 Jul to 10:06 on Tue 24 Jul.

    2040-07-23T06:00:01Z → 2040-07-24T02:05:41Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:00–12:48 on the 23rd, 12:00–12:48 on the 24th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pūrṇimā must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 23rd and 0 of 48 on the 24th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Neither midday qualifies. The rule takes the second day.

    priority: paraviddha → second-day · margin 4292 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Guru Pūrṇimā, Baoding, 2040: Tuesday 24 July.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Guru Pūrṇimā 2040 falls on Tuesday 24 July. Pūrṇimā runs from 14:00 on Mon 23 Jul to 10:06 on Tue 24 Jul, and reaches madhyāhna on neither day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2040/guru-purnima · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 24 Jul
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 24 Jul
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 24 Jul
No institution has a recorded ruling for Baoding.

Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.

The rule, as data

/rules/guru-purnima · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āṣāḍha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pūrṇimā
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Paraviddhā
Tie-break
Second day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 15 Guru purnima (paraviddha), Vyasa puja (paraviddha, 3 muhurtas after sunrise), Kokila vrata (sayahna vyapini). Siva sayanotsava (pradosavyapini).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePūrṇimāMadhyāhna 23rdCoveredMadhyāhna 24thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles23:00 → 19:0612:3548 min12:350 min23 Jul
Chicago01:00 → 21:0612:3348 min12:330 min23 Jul
Jersey City02:00 → 22:0612:3948 min12:390 min23 Jul
Port of Spain02:00 → 22:0611:4948 min11:490 min23 Jul
London07:00 → 03:0612:4348 min12:430 min23 Jul
Durban08:00 → 04:0611:3948 min11:390 min23 Jul
Dubai10:00 → 06:0612:0148 min12:010 min23 Jul
Delhi11:30 → 07:3612:0348 min12:040 min23 Jul
Kolkata11:30 → 07:3611:1937 min11:190 min23 Jul
Singapore14:00 → 10:0612:470 min12:470 min24 Jul
Sydney16:00 → 12:0611:380 min11:3828 min24 Jul
Suva18:00 → 14:0611:490 min11:4948 min24 Jul
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
guru-purnima@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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